Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction argued that students should appreciate “the free market” as well as “the Judeo-Christian values of our founders.”
PragerU, the self-declared right-wing “indoctrination” outfit, has slipped its way into another statewide public education system. On Tuesday,Oklahoma’s superintendent of public instruction, announced the approval of PragerU materials for use in the state’s public schools, a move that Florida made earlier this year.
A former history teacher, Walters touted his past use of PragerU materials in classrooms and linked his state’s partnership with the organization to a supposed battle between God-fearing capitalists and a secular left that forces “indoctrination” onto American students. “We have to get back to a point,” he said, “where young people understand…the free market and individual liberty and the Judeo-Christian values of our founders.
Despite what the name might imply, PragerU is not an accredited educational institution. It is a right-wing media nonprofit whose mission, according to cofounderof his critics in July. “We bring doctrines to children. That’s a very fair statement, I said. But what is the bad about our indoctrination?”
PragerU Kids, the subsection of content that Florida and now Oklahoma have approved for use in public schools, has an extensive catalog of controversial material. In one PragerU Kids
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